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Speaker 1: You may now into it is The Odd Couple job Washington, Martin, Wie.

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Speaker 2: You just heard it in there for Rob.

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Speaker 1: Rob is actually on a real vacation Martin, which, by

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Speaker 1: the way, his says, I did realize, Alex Rob g.

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Speaker 2: He acts like he never takes days off.

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Speaker 1: He takes days off, He just he doesn't count it

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Speaker 1: So he's had plenty of days off. But we gotta

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Speaker 1: miss Rob Martin's inn for the next couple of days.

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Speaker 1: So sit back, relaxed. We got you coming to you

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Speaker 1: on this Magic City. A couple of things you're gonna need.

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Speaker 1: Of course, you're gonna need. The number that is eight

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Speaker 1: the day. Of course, we got a good show lined

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Speaker 1: up for you. Ra Martin and I are gonna co

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Speaker 1: of course cover the NBA Finals, a whole lot to

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Speaker 1: dissect there, and then coming up later on about five

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Speaker 1: thirty Benjamin Garcia, host of The Man Garcia Show on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: host of the Locked On Suns podcast. Gotta get to

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Speaker 1: that big trade in the NBA with Kevin Durant. We'll

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Speaker 1: get to that in a little bit as well. And

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Speaker 1: then also Antonio Daniels ad Our guests at around six

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Speaker 1: thirty Western time, nine thirty on the East, So looking

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Speaker 1: forward to that as well.

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Speaker 2: Let's bring in the crew. Couldn't do it without them.

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Speaker 1: Rob g you looking looking, spelt being jabbing yourself?

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Speaker 2: Where are we at? We about four or five down?

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Speaker 2: Is it? I need to know before firm at four?

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Speaker 2: Wait till we get the real meds in. This is

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Speaker 2: the sampler, This.

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Speaker 4: The appetizer of the game. This is a shame here. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: performance dancing drugs. I mean I thought we were past

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Speaker 4: that part.

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Speaker 5: I'm Barry Bond no no, no, I was Hall of

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Speaker 5: Fame before, but not about to be the greatest everage.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: You might be somebody else. That's Barry Bond's when I

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Speaker 4: admit it, you're the guy who didn't get caught. Shane, Oh,

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Speaker 4: he's that's the guy, the guy. You're the guy who

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Speaker 4: was shooting up waiting to get the call. And he's like,

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Speaker 4: I think I could say or they got a choir.

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Speaker 4: He's like, well, you know what, maybe me only hitting

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Speaker 4: twenty seven home runs didn't didn't flag anything?

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Speaker 1: Is he? Ryan Garcia, Like he just doesn't care that

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Speaker 1: he's done stuff, because that's the thing Rob he's been

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Speaker 1: he's been clamoring for it, got it, telling us he

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Speaker 1: got it, Like we still think Rob Parker might be

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Speaker 1: on it. He's just trying to hide it from us.

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Speaker 1: That might be what you're talking about too. We got

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Speaker 1: Alex our engineer assignment Monday. I'm here, Well you.

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Speaker 2: Are well, are you normally?

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Speaker 3: Is it?

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Speaker 2: Is it Sason married Monday? Okay?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well that it must have been Gray or a

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Speaker 1: marine layer, because when sons are out, your buns are

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Speaker 1: out of you're getting some mons or something like that.

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Speaker 1: Alex in the building as well, got Steve the Seger. Well,

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Speaker 1: of course is gonna get you set on what's trending.

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Speaker 1: Uh So, Reddick dive deep into this. Uh, it's a

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Speaker 1: lot to get it too, Martin. When we had the

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Speaker 1: NBA Finals, which you you jumped in a couple of times, overall,

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Speaker 1: you were excited about this from just a sports fan,

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Speaker 1: from a basketball fan. You weren't one of those blah

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Speaker 1: blah NBA Finals. Who's watching this? You were in?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? To me, shocking turn of events.

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Speaker 4: Guy who decided to try to make a living talking

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I was locked in. I was interested the

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Speaker 4: NBA playoffs. They're fun, that's it.

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Speaker 1: And I'm more like you, I will admit, and I've

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Speaker 1: said this several times in the show. It is strange Martin.

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Speaker 1: In my however, many years living, you know how it goes. Oh, man,

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Speaker 1: this series is crazy. I can't believe he took that shot.

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Speaker 1: I didn't get any kind of text like that with

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Speaker 2: You get all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's just because they're such

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Speaker 2: No real like eat both teams, like who's the who's

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Speaker 1: This one was like, even if you're going for the Pacers,

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Speaker 2: We're getting into a dangerous territory already.

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Speaker 4: I want to start just by saying congratulations through the

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Speaker 4: y Oklahoma City Thunder for winning the NBA Final.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's a big thing.

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Speaker 4: Shake Gilgi Alexander just chopped topped off one of the

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Speaker 2: That we'll see an NBA history Ottao.

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Speaker 4: I feel like we're seeing new NBA history made every

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Speaker 4: given a week day, just about right.

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Speaker 2: If you don't like the weather. You know, if you

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Speaker 2: don't like the record, the same, same kind of deal.

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Speaker 4: But but no, and okay, see how they're set up

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Speaker 4: for the future.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure down the line in terms of this series today,

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Speaker 4: you know, congratulations to them. I'm sure everybody in Oklahoma

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Speaker 4: they exist. But also the fans of them are in Canada.

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Speaker 4: Well in Canada, they got a lot of them. They

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Speaker 4: The reason why you didn't get a lot of those

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Speaker 4: good way. There's no good way to be boring.

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Speaker 2: To me.

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Speaker 1: Well, what I mean is, if I'm the owner, I'm

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Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about breaking up to a tweet.

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Speaker 4: can't stand you man, you you don't pass the ball

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Speaker 4: like they're boring in the sense of you and you know,

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Speaker 1: They're boring in a sense of consistency. They show up,

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Speaker 1: they work hard, they're united, they're familiar, their their teammates,

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Speaker 1: Well instead of just you, all eight, nine, ten guys

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Speaker 1: that's what I mean, and boring in a good way

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Speaker 4: So I mean, it's the That's the thing. I think

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Speaker 4: all the things that you just said about them are

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Speaker 2: They like, play really hard, they'll work together.

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Speaker 4: Just think about the think about the teams in the East,

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Speaker 4: like right now the Indiana Pacers is true for them.

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Speaker 1: That's what made these two teams almost identical. But we

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Speaker 1: Why Cat ain't playing in a minute. Why is he

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Speaker 1: little something in there, Jalen Brunson, He's hogging too much?

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Speaker 2: Are they getting? You could have some stuff in there.

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Speaker 1: This team with the kumbaya on that kumbaya was one hundred,

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Speaker 1: which again, if I'm the owner, that's a great thing.

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Speaker 4: And I'm not saying again everyone in Oklahoma City should

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Speaker 2: This is not a knock to them.

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Speaker 4: David and Goliath. Right, This was the biggest potential favorite

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Speaker 4: in NBA Finals history. This was we haven't seen this

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Speaker 4: You can't name one thing.

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Speaker 4: But I mean, but no one. I'm not saying nobody,

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Speaker 4: but you're not equating that. And the reason why you

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Speaker 4: at the biggest stage of his career, right, that was

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Speaker 4: his primary moment. But then the two thousand an eleven

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Speaker 4: team you were are a finals, you remember that because

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Speaker 4: the the king fell, right, the king fell, and Lebron

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Speaker 4: and had all the I mean spawned honestly fifteen years

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Speaker 2: Here the goliath is boring.

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Speaker 4: That's the problem, like Lebron, that that team Miami, Like,

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Speaker 4: that future Kobe and Shaq, even though that finals itself

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Speaker 4: remember is Alan Iverson stepping over, and that maybe the

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Speaker 4: moment that you remember from this finals is Tyres Haliburton

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Speaker 4: hitting that shot in Game one. But you were invested

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Speaker 4: in what Kobe and Shaq were doing. When I watched

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Speaker 4: Shake Gildess, Alexander and Chad Holmgren and Jalen Williams, they

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Speaker 4: are spursy and in a way that I cannot say

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Speaker 4: is complimentary.

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Speaker 2: It is just like it is a byprop of what happens.

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Speaker 2: Like everything he said is right.

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Speaker 4: In the consistency and so on, even though if you

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Speaker 4: like drive down to some of the numbers, how consistent

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Speaker 4: can they are they?

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Speaker 2: When you look at their shooting percentage and so on?

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Speaker 4: Right, you're more consistency in terms of being stoic in personality,

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Speaker 4: and so I get that. You know what that also was?

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Speaker 4: It was boring then too, and they won five championships

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Speaker 4: it unless you're old at the barbershop and you say,

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Speaker 4: and no, So Tim Duncan really had it like that.

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Speaker 4: I think that you have I think two things have

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Speaker 4: will be chapter one of a book in NBA history, Right,

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Speaker 4: So it'll it won't be the memories of Halliburton. We'll

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Speaker 4: We'll remember like the moment, but it won't be in

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Speaker 1: Final, especially nowadays with all these he keeps flopping every year.

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Speaker 1: It right like you have a juggernaut, Lakers, Warriors, We're

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Speaker 4: We talk about seven unique champions in the last seven years.

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Speaker 1: I think it'll be more of a Reggie Miller choke. Ironically,

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Speaker 1: and for Rob, Hopefully you're having a wonderful day. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: you had a great weekend as well. Weekend was good, Martin.

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Speaker 1: You get any anything?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was here, you were here, well, O Robie,

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Speaker 4: I know that, but do you know anything else?

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Speaker 4: I've been having fun, having fun any medy. I ain't

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Speaker 4: traveling now for work, that's true. So now I rest

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Speaker 4: when I'm home, play a lot of call of duty. Yeah, hey,

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Speaker 4: play games the morning, don't play it happens quick. Hey, hey, Martin,

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Speaker 1: Right, we got game, we're getting some conversations more about

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Speaker 2: Bad things happened to the other team that they played against.

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Speaker 1: you gotta go.

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Speaker 2: Didn't it feel like to you?

434
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Speaker 4: And honestly, the fact that they haven't hired a coach

435
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Speaker 4: yet and all of it made it feel like, wait

436
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Speaker 4: a minute, it's not that you lost, it's that your

437
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Speaker 4: loss to them, but that them did.

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Speaker 1: We But that goes to the point. Didn't we all

439
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Speaker 1: underestimate to them? I you know what I mean, Like

440
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Speaker 1: we're making like them was half away.

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Speaker 4: Here's there's my final question. This my final thought on

442
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Speaker 4: the whole thing. Because I am throwing hui and apple

443
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Speaker 4: sauce on the idea that the Oklahoma City Thunder are

444
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Speaker 4: a dominant team that they are, that they're up there

445
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Speaker 4: with the best championships teams that we have seen. Not

446
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Speaker 4: think that this is likely great team. I don't care

447
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Speaker 4: what these numbers say. I watched them. You know what

448
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Speaker 4: I'm saying with you. I mean, I get the numbers,

449
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Speaker 4: but I also don't think that the Pacers were as

450
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Speaker 4: bad as you know saying initially like we thought going in,

451
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Speaker 4: like everybody, so where is it? Where's the line in

452
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Speaker 4: the middle, Like, where's where is it meet in the middle.

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Speaker 4: I don't think that Oklahoma City is just some magnet

454
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Speaker 4: like magnificent. If they had played this like if this was.

455
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Speaker 2: A ten game series.

456
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Speaker 4: Hell, if Tyrese Haliburton snapped his achilles in the fourth

457
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Speaker 4: quarter instead of the first quarter, I think we're talking

458
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Speaker 4: about highly different game, right, And the idea that this

459
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Speaker 4: team was supposed to be the best team of all

460
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Speaker 4: time in terms of the odds, and you know, people

461
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Speaker 4: are on you know, I don't mean the bag on them,

462
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Speaker 4: but Nick right, one of my favorite people on team.

463
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Speaker 4: He was talking about the bet of the year was

464
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Speaker 4: Thunder minus one and a half in the series. Nobody

465
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Speaker 4: gave this Pacers team a shot and then three games

466
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Speaker 4: into it was like, wait a minute.

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Speaker 2: Can they actually do it?

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Speaker 4: So maybe my take is less about the actual thunder

469
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Speaker 4: and more about the media and the people that talk

470
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Speaker 4: about these teams. Just because this team is the top

471
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Speaker 4: of the sixty eight, they don't have to talk about

472
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Speaker 4: them as if they are the greatest team. And if

473
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Speaker 4: we talk about them in a way that provides more context,

474
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Speaker 4: we can have real conversation.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what you what context? Well here he

476
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Speaker 2: think this is. Don't nobody contextualize nothing? No more?

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Speaker 1: He wants conversations. Boy, I'll tell you, I'm with you

478
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Speaker 1: that that might be one of the issues I like too.

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Speaker 2: You know, let me contextualize.

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Speaker 1: But if you think about it like this, well, you

481
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Speaker 1: know what people want to do nowadays, want to spew something,

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Speaker 1: get it out, be the first two it. But if

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Speaker 1: you can textualize you mentioned I think it also the

484
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Speaker 1: final point for me, the Pacers were just better than

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Speaker 1: I gave him credit for it, Rob when he was

486
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Speaker 1: sitting there originally, because we both have admitted and said

487
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Speaker 1: we as a show didn't even talk about them. Other

488
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Speaker 1: people we had guests on the show Man, we didn't

489
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Speaker 1: even talk about them. Our show National people, local people.

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Speaker 1: Everybody said, this team is better than we gave him

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Speaker 1: credit for. If you look at the numbers, they were

492
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Speaker 1: second best team since January. They did things well, it's

493
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Speaker 1: just they didn't have that again. You're like, everybody's all right,

494
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Speaker 1: they got like four or five guys give you fifteen

495
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Speaker 1: to sixte in a game, and we just ignored them,

496
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Speaker 1: and they within a half of a game away from

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Speaker 1: winning the NBA Finals.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Also, some trades happened, some mega trays that we kind

500
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Speaker 1: of thought would happen, and it finally happened. We're gonna

501
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Speaker 1: tell you how we feel about that in just a minute,

502
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Speaker 1: right now, Steve, the Sega is gonna get you set

503
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Speaker 1: on what's trending.

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Speaker 3: Steve, be sure to catch live editions of The Odd

505
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Speaker 3: Couple with Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington weekdays at seven

506
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Speaker 3: pm Eastern, four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and

507
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Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: All right, Steve, thank you so much appreciated this The

509
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Speaker 1: Odd Couple, Kevin Washington, Martin Weiss, and for Rob Parker,

510
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 1: Rob on his baseball vacation gonna be hitting a bunch

511
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Speaker 1: of different places watching games throughout this country. So safe

512
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Speaker 1: travels to our buddy there. All right, Martin, we sat

513
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Speaker 1: here a couple of times throughout the last few weeks

514
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Speaker 1: talking about Kevin Durant. He actually goes back a couple

515
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Speaker 1: of months back when phoee sounds was like get out.

516
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Speaker 1: He was like, they say get out. He was like no,

517
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Speaker 1: and wanted to stick around. He and Bradley Billy, what

518
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Speaker 1: is so? What is so great about Phoenix that they

519
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,160
Speaker 1: just stuck with one to stick around, especially Bradley Bill.

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Speaker 4: People from Los Angeles? Where do they go there? Arizona,

521
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Speaker 4: Nevada or Nevada? Yep, so there You. I don't know

522
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Speaker 4: whatever it is they got, Like Bradley Bill, let me

523
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Speaker 4: tell you something.

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Speaker 1: It's one thing if if if you feel like man things,

525
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Speaker 1: let's say you this is where I've been six seven,

526
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Speaker 1: eight years. Like no, man, y'all, I'm just I leave

527
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Speaker 1: when I want you. I'll put my bloodswing tears here.

528
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Speaker 1: I've been here. If it was Devin Booker, right, he

529
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Speaker 1: kind of has earned that, you will say with Phoenix man,

530
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Speaker 1: Bradley Bill, bro if I'm not wanted and I can

531
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Speaker 1: go somewhere else, maybe hop on a contending type of team.

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Speaker 1: All right, Fine, for some reason, he just wants to

533
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Speaker 1: hold it down there. I don't know that he found

534
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Speaker 1: a good school. And now that's what it is. You

535
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Speaker 1: got the you got the wrong concept. Brad Beial knows

536
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Speaker 1: what time it is.

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Speaker 2: He knows.

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Speaker 4: Look, if I get traded somewhere, somebody might make the

539
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Speaker 4: mistake again of thinking that I'm gonna be a player

540
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Speaker 4: that impacts winning at a high level. And then they

541
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Speaker 4: gonna just talk about. Right now, all they talk about

542
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Speaker 4: is how they can't trade me. Then they're gonna start

543
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Speaker 4: talking about how I actually play the game play itself,

544
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Speaker 4: then start talking about actually play. You know what I'm saying.

545
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Speaker 2: I gotta go outside.

546
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Speaker 4: You know, he's not gonna be out there in the world,

547
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Speaker 4: you know, and Phoenix is so don't go hot.

548
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Speaker 2: Maybe that's another thing. He stays inside all day because

549
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Speaker 2: it's so don't go hot. Maybe you're right, maybe he

550
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Speaker 2: don't want to leave.

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Speaker 1: All I know is now it makes it interesting what

552
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Speaker 1: they're gonna do, because now they have I call him

553
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Speaker 1: Bradley Bill light in Jalen Green. I mean, hey, they

554
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Speaker 1: got rid of KD, and of course we got the

555
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Speaker 1: KD going to Houston, I said for a few times

556
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Speaker 1: that we had these conversations Bart and I told Rob that,

557
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Speaker 1: I said, I think Houston who was the best place,

558
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Speaker 1: the best landing spot for KD for multiple reasons. Those

559
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Speaker 1: guys are crazy, athletic, good defensively. They already have the

560
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Speaker 1: post game with Shang Shangoon and obviously they got frev Vlie,

561
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Speaker 1: the constantate professional pro kind of, you know, the the leader,

562
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Speaker 1: point guard and pieces around that. I'm and Thompson looks

563
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Speaker 1: like he's gonna be incredible, but they need a guy

564
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Speaker 1: who can get a bucket. But they needed a score.

565
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Speaker 1: But they needed a guy all right fourth quarter closed

566
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Speaker 1: this thing on out and win his game for us.

567
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Speaker 1: And I thought Kevin Durant was perfect. And because KD

568
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Speaker 1: is proven not to be a leader. And I don't

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Speaker 1: mean that in a disrespectful way. I meant I'm gonna

570
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Speaker 1: do what I do and that'll be good for the team.

571
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Speaker 1: But I'm not necessarily going to enhance and bring the

572
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Speaker 1: team up at this point in my career seven eight, nine,

573
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Speaker 1: ten years ago. Maybe not the case right now, And

574
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Speaker 1: that's okay if I have that locked in, which I

575
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Speaker 1: do with my head coach Frean van Vliet and a

576
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Speaker 1: couple other guys, so they're okay, boom, that's where he lands.

577
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Speaker 1: I thought it made sense from the jump. Jalen Green

578
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Speaker 1: now is going to Phoenix. I don't know what they're

579
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Speaker 1: gonna do there with Bradley Bill. Bradley Bill like Booker

580
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Speaker 1: and you had a thought on on Devin Booker with

581
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Speaker 1: this currently still with his sons.

582
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Speaker 2: Only stick on the Kevin Durant thing. First.

583
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Speaker 4: Yes, the first thing that I don't care for is

584
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Speaker 4: the fact that it's Game seven was yesterday, all right, Okay,

585
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Speaker 4: This trade, which cannot happen until, by my quick back

586
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Speaker 4: of the napkin map thirteen days from now, is announced

587
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Speaker 4: at this moment like this was completely orchestrated. I'm seeing

588
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Speaker 4: through it. I'm taking my tenfoil hat out and I'm

589
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,919
Speaker 4: seeing through it. You put him up there with Taylor Rooks,

590
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Speaker 4: who we know has been at the center of dang

591
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Speaker 4: on there every viral NBA moment, and you know since

592
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Speaker 4: le Jalen Brown saying he's gonna win out of all

593
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Speaker 4: them championships, right, people get in front of Taylor Brooks

594
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Speaker 4: and say anything is how it all goes?

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Speaker 2: Right? Is what they said? The thirty for thirty on

596
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Speaker 2: that is gonna behilarious, right, So what if I.

597
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Speaker 4: Told you and you know what, Kelvin, this is the

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Speaker 4: thing that really I'm a child. I was telling this

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Speaker 4: to one of the one of the people's branded early

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Speaker 4: because he's young, he's a TikToker.

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Speaker 2: I'm a child of the Internet. I'm not a child

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Speaker 2: of social media.

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Speaker 4: So when I see something online, I'm intended to believe

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Speaker 4: that it was not orchestrated. Like the viral videos that

605
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Speaker 4: we grew up watching were videos that were clipped from

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Speaker 4: the news, right right, That's what And it was just like,

607
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,160
Speaker 4: can you believe what it's crazy doing? That happened in Oskosh,

608
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So it wasn't until I

609
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 4: heard Kevin Durant talking with Kay Adams afterwards where I

610
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 4: was like, oh, I had ten on went all the

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Speaker 4: way up, started getting every frequency because that man said

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Speaker 4: fanatics Fest at least five times and his answer about

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Speaker 4: getting traded to the Houston Rockets, and so that just

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Speaker 4: the whole concept is weird, Like you saying Michael Ruber

615
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Speaker 4: has something to do with this. You want to talk

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Speaker 4: about what's wrong with this league? You want to talk

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Speaker 4: about where's the attention. I'm telling you how boring the

618
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Speaker 4: Oklahoma City thunder is.

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Speaker 2: And you know why.

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Speaker 4: It's because for the last ten years, the NBA has

621
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Speaker 4: been telling you transactions and not action that happens in games.

622
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Speaker 4: And the idea that today we have to talk about

623
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Speaker 4: this because this is today. It was announcement. Don't get

624
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Speaker 4: me wrong, we have to talk about this like we are.

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Speaker 4: Like literally, you're a news broadcaster. There are things that

626
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Speaker 4: you were obligated to talk about because they happened that day.

627
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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: You may not want to talk about what happened that day,

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Speaker 4: but it is the news, right. This is very much

630
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Speaker 4: the news of the NBA the same way that is

631
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Speaker 4: the news of the NBA. Games haven't happened yesterday, And

632
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Speaker 4: it's just like, it's embarrassing to me, like when Aaron Rodgers,

633
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Speaker 4: when Adam Schefter leaked the Green Bay story on Aaron

634
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Speaker 4: Rodgers like six minutes before the first pick of the draft,

635
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Speaker 4: it was universally panned.

636
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Speaker 2: And this should be as well, Cause.

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Speaker 4: What's the categorical change between announcing that tomorrow three days

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Speaker 4: ago or right then?

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Speaker 2: None? Absolutely none.

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Speaker 1: Here's why, here's why I would disagree with you, though

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Speaker 1: I think this and the Robb was here last week.

642
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: I said this, this is the new NBA. So we're

643
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: talking about this series and not to be man of juice,

644
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: no nothing. That the ratings a love that this is

645
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Speaker 1: what the NBA has become. And you could argue since

646
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Speaker 1: the decision where there's always something going on in the

647
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: off season. Now basketball for the most part, especially the

648
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Speaker 1: first if you want to call it the Glory years,

649
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Speaker 1: as they got the Last Dance air right now, we

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Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of monuments to trades or free

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Speaker 1: agen signings to the tune that we have them.

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Speaker 2: Now the last ten fifteen years.

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Speaker 1: So I think the NBA now is kind of like

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Speaker 1: world soccer, you know, Major League soccer, soccer across the world,

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Speaker 1: where you got these massive players who all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden go get not to the money that they get soccer,

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Speaker 1: but you know, four hundred dollars deal to go play

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Speaker 1: with some Saudi Arabia team or go he's gonna go

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Speaker 1: to Manchester or not.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of what we get now, where we get

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Speaker 2: the finals.

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Speaker 1: We enjoyed it, no matter the team could be the Nuggets,

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Speaker 1: could have been Celtics, could have been the Thunder and then

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Speaker 1: we go, oh, my guys to and so is going there.

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Speaker 1: He's got traded or he chooses to sign there because

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Speaker 1: you know what else were about to be on watch

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Speaker 1: on We're gonna be on the Yannis watch now, you

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Speaker 1: know whereas Johanna's gonna go, You're gonna play.

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Speaker 2: And I get it just saying the time.

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Speaker 1: But I think the NBA is like they're turning into

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Speaker 1: the NFL Martin where just talk about us. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: we want to be Can we be year round? Can

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Speaker 1: we get nine ten months? Maybe the NFL is twenty twelve.

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Speaker 2: Months a year. My point exactly, you want to be

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Speaker 2: the NFL.

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Speaker 4: You know what you shouldn't do Half two of your

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Speaker 4: biggest headline topics happen on the same day, especially when

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Speaker 4: one of them is essentially evergreen. It can happen at

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Speaker 4: any point in the next fourteen days. Now, just quickly

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Speaker 4: on the point of the thunder. How I think it

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Speaker 4: actually worked. I love it. I think Kevin Durant and

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Speaker 4: I know that he kind of orchestrated his way into Houston.

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Speaker 2: I think it is a home run.

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Speaker 4: We are moving into a place in the NBA where

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Speaker 4: it is less and less and less about who is

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Speaker 4: your best player and more and more and more about

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Speaker 4: who is the worst player that you have to play.

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Speaker 4: And what the Houston Rockets did essentially was trade two

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Speaker 4: players that are in their starting lineups that when you

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Speaker 4: watch them play, you say, wow, if they could just

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Speaker 4: improve at either wing, this team would be devastating.

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Speaker 2: And what did they do.

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Speaker 4: They basically got moved off of the guys they don't

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Speaker 4: want to they don't want to play, and they are

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Speaker 4: forced to play because there's nobody else there.

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Speaker 2: Well, now you have Kevin Durant there.

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Speaker 4: I think that you tag him with a point guard

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Speaker 4: like lan Elite and a big man like Steven Adams

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Speaker 4: who are just gonna go straight, do your job, lunch

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Speaker 4: pail type guys, and with the Thompson on the other wing,

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Speaker 4: that's a problem that would be a problem for years

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Speaker 4: to come. Dude, I'm in Thompson is about to be

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Speaker 4: so good in the next couple of years. I mean,

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Speaker 4: his brother's gonna be good too, but he seems to

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Speaker 4: be a little bit more offensive savvy, offensively savvy.

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Speaker 1: This seam is scary man, and Jalen Green is one

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Speaker 1: of those players. Eventually, I think it might pop for him,

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Speaker 1: but it's almost weird. And you mentioned when you watch him,

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Speaker 1: you're like, does he know how good he is or

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Speaker 1: like how good he can be? Or is he trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out his role? What I do? Do I shoot?

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Speaker 1: Do I get to the hole. It's like, dude, once

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Speaker 1: he gets that, hopefully gets some good coaching somewhere, whether

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Speaker 1: it be Phoenix or wherever. If they mess around and

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Speaker 1: do another trade or something. Because the talent is there,

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Speaker 1: just the raw talent, you just hope that he's been

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Speaker 1: able to put together because he the skills there, the

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Speaker 1: athleticism there. You just to your point, we watched him

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Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, he's the best. No, he's not

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Speaker 1: the best player, look Sam goons. Oh wait, no it

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Speaker 1: should be j Wait. No, it's saying good but Jalen Green,

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Speaker 1: because they'll have those nights where you're like, Okay, that dude, he.

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Speaker 2: Can be Ye. That makes think it's a case of

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Speaker 2: poor decision making skills.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well that without of that and probably life

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Speaker 1: skills too, I think is across the board. Yeah all right,

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Speaker 1: we are the other side of that too. Is a

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Speaker 1: guy that remains in Devin Booker and what do they

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Speaker 1: do with him. What's the expectation with him? We'll get

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Speaker 1: on that and just a bit. It is the Odd

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Speaker 1: Couple Martin and for Rob kelvin Washington on a Magic

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Speaker 1: City Monday, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple

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Speaker 3: with Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington weekdays at seven pm

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Speaker 3: Eastern four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the

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Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: You think that's what he round there screaming atter? This

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Speaker 1: week started off for Rob. This is the Odd Couple,

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Speaker 1: kelvin Washington, Martin Weiss and for Rob Rob again on

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Speaker 1: VK so make sure you follow him. Martin Weiss, by

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Speaker 1: the way on all the socials k UP live for

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Speaker 1: myself Odd Couple FSR as well. We're getting ready to

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Speaker 1: get to the play a day in a second. But

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Speaker 1: speaking of which, I had a good weekend Martin. Yesterday

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Speaker 1: specifically they had the LA Press Clubs and uh, your

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Speaker 1: boy want to anchor in the host of the year

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Speaker 1: out here in these streets, man oh man, congratulation appreciate

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Speaker 1: that man that's from the LA Press Club.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he had a they call him journalism Wars. And

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Speaker 4: then's the LA Press Club is the actual award. You know,

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Speaker 4: it was like the Oscars, but the Academy Award kind

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Speaker 4: of thing.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, by surprise, man, I was going, Alex, I

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Speaker 1: was going to talk to my twin, Blair Underwood. He

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Speaker 1: was there, so I'm post that picture of mails shopping

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Speaker 1: to him. I said, let me just know when we're

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Speaker 1: gonna do a movie together. You know that could be

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Speaker 1: a little brother in the movie. Ha ha ha Kelvin Washington,

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Speaker 1: And you just literally see me like not at all.

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Speaker 4: It was like a movie like, oh, I get but

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Speaker 4: it's pretty cool man. So by surprise literally called me.

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Speaker 4: By surprises. I love that. It just it just caught him.

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Speaker 4: The VI got p who was caught more? Rob g

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Speaker 4: and Alex Let me ask you something, who do you

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Speaker 4: think was caught more? By surprise in this? Uh Kelvin

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Speaker 4: with this announcement that he just happened to be at

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Speaker 4: randomly there from Sure Dress to the Niners to be

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Speaker 4: able to accept this award, or Kevin Durant at Fanatics

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Speaker 4: Fest when he was found out that he got traded,

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Speaker 4: who was more.

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Speaker 2: Wisely, It's too soon, bro. That was that was more surprise.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, I'm I'm just see mine see mine.

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Speaker 2: Is because those things are so subjective.

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Speaker 1: Right, you get nominated three sports and you don't win

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Speaker 1: any known name me next year, then all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden you win and you don't win.

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Speaker 2: So this is that's what That's what I'm saying. That's

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Speaker 2: very humble. You're not nominated for it, and then I'm

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Speaker 2: one of four people. I got twenty five percents to

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Speaker 2: win this thing. Then say that, you know, I guess

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Speaker 2: didn't say it was five or six.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't know what you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: it's you know, I was telling Rob g if Rob

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Speaker 1: was here, I picked a thunder thunder one, I said,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant was gonna where said he was going to

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Speaker 1: the rockets. I was right, and then hosts Anchor of

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Speaker 1: the Year in l A. I was about to slam

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Speaker 1: that the word. I was about to light him up.

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Speaker 4: Bro and and and Kelvin slighted him up. You've been

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Speaker 4: working with Rob and for the what is it? How

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Speaker 4: long do you guys this version of the nine months

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Speaker 4: give a take? So you nine months, you know, solid,

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Speaker 4: solid start and obviously shows off to a you know, skyrocketing.

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Speaker 4: I've been working with Rob for ten years now, and

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Speaker 4: in the first half of that was easy. That's why

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Speaker 4: Rob's not here. Yeah, he knew, that's why he's not here.

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Speaker 4: What do you mean, good Mo, You're right, of course

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Speaker 4: he's not here. You're talking about you got the NBA Finals, right,

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Speaker 4: and I heard him talking about Wendyana.

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Speaker 2: Yep, he got it right. Yes, you keeping he's not here.

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Speaker 2: You thinking.

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Speaker 4: Look, Rob's got the Baseball Writers card that he the

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Speaker 4: Baseball Writers of America.

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Speaker 2: You thinks that he can go to any baseball game

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Speaker 2: he wants to. He can't.

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Speaker 4: It is something he brags about all the time. And

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Speaker 4: you know he fly spirit. So he went and got

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Speaker 4: on that artist low budget airlines. I should say, I

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Speaker 4: don't know if he's holding to just one of them,

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00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 4: but it tosks him fifty bucks to get from here

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Speaker 4: to Cincinnati. So it's like, oh, Tyre's Haliburton, Pops's Achilles. Hello,

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Speaker 4: I'll say look for chevity two dollars. I could be

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Speaker 4: in Cincinnati tomorrow. You know what the test is going

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Speaker 4: to be.

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Speaker 1: The Lettings test is going to be when I post

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Speaker 1: here in a minute that I wont if he doesn't

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Speaker 1: like it or shoot the text. Rob g in the

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Speaker 1: group chat if I don't get ahead congress like he

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Speaker 1: like we all do him and his random joints. But

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Speaker 1: I don't get a miseltof from the black Jewish person

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Speaker 1: that is Rob Parker, Rob Sterling Junior.

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Speaker 2: I got a question, know something.

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Speaker 5: You know, Robs has a very good chance, we'll say,

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Speaker 5: of being nominated for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sure in the relative near future.

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Speaker 5: Huh do you think he'll take a day off if

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Speaker 5: he gets that nomination or a year.

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Speaker 2: No, we gotta lead the show with it. No, oh,

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Speaker 2: that is a good Ooh. He'll be here here here

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Speaker 2: the day of though. Oh no, no, no no, and

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Speaker 2: he'll be here rob ballat he'll go.

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Speaker 1: And I just want to say something, Kelvin, I've been

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Speaker 1: covering this league since nineteen eighty six. Just this little

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Speaker 1: kid I didn't know I was playing softball was a

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Speaker 1: picture by the way, seriously, seriously, And then we got

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Speaker 1: to go through at. You know, Robs, just like that

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Speaker 1: text I shot you the other day.

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Speaker 2: But I ain't gonna go there. But that's what he'll do.

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Speaker 2: You know what he'll do.

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Speaker 4: He'll congratulate your text and it sends you the picture

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Speaker 4: of him out to dinner with you know, five men.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, if you try to act like you don't know

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Speaker 5: where you're at somewhere like hey, now I was at

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Speaker 5: church this weekend.

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Speaker 2: I know you're with Robin. It's out everywhere. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: You want to let me know the next time you're

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Speaker 4: up for these awards that you're so surprised about, so

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Speaker 4: when you do win them, I can schedule my time.

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Speaker 1: Better because now I'll know I have to work. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: well yeah, I can do that. Matter of fact too.

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Speaker 1: They need to make sure they get those things a

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Speaker 1: little earlier for you, boy, because I had to turn

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Speaker 1: around to be up in like in ten minutes we.

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Speaker 4: Went to bed. Latest surprise. Now now he's a diva.

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Speaker 4: Give me my award early.

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Speaker 1: A matter of fact. Just mail it to me so

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Speaker 1: I only have to come in. You're right, just send

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Speaker 1: it to the crib.

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Speaker 2: I'm on zoo.